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The top two locked horns in Division One with honours even as leaders Falcon (Jack Spark) drew 1-1 with Coach & Horses (John Holmes) and this allowed Platinum Menswear in third place to gain ground as they just got by Sacred Heart (Joe Edwards) 2-1 thanks to goals from Jordan Holmes and James Gardiner.

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Next year, economic uncertainties and currency market volatility will ease, but the won is expected to continue to gain ground," the institute said.

Joint action mulled to curb won's gain

While the rewards of the future will require battles as hard-fought as the ones that have helped us to gain ground in the past, and we must remain ever-vigilant if we are to continue to build on those gains, I still fervently believe that the glass is indeed half full, and that our best history is yet to come.

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Although pressure-decay leak testers are currently predominant in the market, mass-flow leak-measurement systems are beginning to gain ground, particularly in the automotive sector as well as the more cost-sensitive medical-device market in applications where precision testing rather than simple gross leak detection is sought.